TY - GEN
T1 - Data anonymization according to the combination of attributes on social network sites
AU - Kavianpour, Sanaz
AU - Shanmugam, Bharanidharan
AU - Ismail, Zuraini
PY - 2013/9/12
Y1 - 2013/9/12
N2 - The popularity of social network sites has increased extremely during the previous years. Social network sites provide an intimacy interactive platform on the Internet for exchanging information among users. Users may disclose their ideas, comments, pictures or videos, secrets about their business or other private information that may be used by inappropriate user to threaten users’ future decisions or positions. Thus, the goal of this paper is to explain how users’ data can be anonymized to mitigate privacy concerns through information dissemination. The results depicts that although anonymization of data cannot protect the privacy of data completely, it can reduce the possibility of re-identification.
AB - The popularity of social network sites has increased extremely during the previous years. Social network sites provide an intimacy interactive platform on the Internet for exchanging information among users. Users may disclose their ideas, comments, pictures or videos, secrets about their business or other private information that may be used by inappropriate user to threaten users’ future decisions or positions. Thus, the goal of this paper is to explain how users’ data can be anonymized to mitigate privacy concerns through information dissemination. The results depicts that although anonymization of data cannot protect the privacy of data completely, it can reduce the possibility of re-identification.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-40576-1_27
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-40576-1_27
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783642405754
T3 - Communication in Computer and Information Science
SP - 272
EP - 280
BT - Security in computing and communications
A2 - Thampi, Sabu M.
A2 - Atrey, Pradeep K.
A2 - Fan, Chun-I
A2 - Martinez Perez, Gregorio
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin
T2 - International Symposium on Security in Computing and Communications
Y2 - 22 August 2013 through 24 August 2013
ER -